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Here is the way one survivor tells it. When Larry Gene Ashbrook walked into the church sanctuary with his guns--a 9-mm semiautomatic and a .380-cal. one--he paused. He had already started a shooting spree outside that left two dead. But once inside he was approached by one of the teens who had been singing along with a Christian rock 'n' roll praise band. What the youngster offered the black-jacketed killer was heaven, saying, "You need Jesus." Ashbrook, 47, answered, "It's all bulls___, what you believe!" It was only then that he opened...
...Wednesday night at 7 p.m. (8:00 in Floyd?s time zone), a man named Larry Ashbrook strolled into Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, and opened fire with a semiautomatic pistol. He emptied three clips into the hallowed air. Three adults and four teenagers were killed, eight others wounded. After Ashbrook was done shooting young Baptists, who had gathered to hear a Christian-rock concert, he finished his cigarette and turned the gun on himself...
...news story, it lacked for little. A pipe bomb had gone off; authorities needed to send a robot in to check Ashbrook?s body for booby traps. Shiny, happy, God-fearing kids mowed down when God was supposed to be caring for them. A throwback to Cassie Bernall at Columbine, and the shredded prayer circle in Paducah, Ky., last year. CNN followed step by step the rampage, flight and capture of Buford Furrow at the L.A. Jewish Community Center in August. Just one had died. Columbine? We?ve only just now stopped hearing about Columbine. Yet the shooting barely...
...York Post columnist complained shrilly that Christians, in death, get short shrift. "To so many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite?s reaction would be." Dreher is right about one thing: Ashbrook?s massacre is a hate crime, and might even have been stamped as such...
...anything was more of a violation of something sacred than shooting up a school full of kids? How about a church full of kids? Police in Fort Worth on Thursday were scratching their heads for a motive after a man, identified by police as 47-year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook of Fort Worth, dressed in black and spewing anti-Baptist rhetoric, burst into a church service for teenagers Wednesday evening and opened fire, killing seven and then himself. He was "cussing royally," said one survivor, but he was calm enough to both smoke a cigarette and empty three clips...